The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-05-26
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General Boulanger has been called
''Bonaparte without victory"
There are 400, coo unmarried men in
Paris against $50, 900 married men.
The naturally beautiful society lady
has become good deal of a curiosity.
j. B. Lippincott, of Philadelphia,
left an estate valued at nearly $1,000
900.
There is talk OF moving the capital
of Washington territory from Olympia
to some other point.
A 100000 Young Mems Christian
association building is about to be
erected at Los Angeles, Cal.
Young Charles Dickens has signed a
contract to deliver fifty readings from
his fathers works in this country, be-
ginning about Oct l.
DR.. W. Searle. who attended Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher in his last i'll
ness, was formerly prominent homeo-
pathic physician in Troy.
Mr.. Beecher wrote a letter less than
a week before he died in which he said:
II am perfectly well, and wonder
whether shall ever grow old"
jeff Davis expenses at Beauvoir are
very heavy, so many people come to
visit him The old man finds it very
difficult to make both ends meet.
The President has prejudice against
''club men," He says: Il don't know
that | ever knew of a club man who
ever overcrowded himself with work. "
There is rich man in the Black
Hills, says the Bismarck Times, who
dates the beginning of his fortune from
the day when he sold his wife for 81
900.
Report has it that Senator ingalls,
still preserves the first fee he ever re-
ceived as a lawyer, namely, a table and
a high desk, made by carpenter
client.
Louis Seasongood, one of the wealth
lest Hebrews of Cincinnati, is about to
start a bank in New York. He came
to Cincinnati with peddler's pack on
his back.
An Oregon lobbyist has sued a firm
for nearly a thousand dollars damages
for certain services alleged to have
been performed by him during the last
session of the legislature.
An unhappy New York bachelor is
the one who was to have had an art
reception in his rooms, but whose
creditors took his collection and post
poned the reception.
The initial velocity of the 1900
pound projectile, recently fired twice
with 1000 pounds of powder from the
new 100-tOn gun intended for the
British ship Benbow, was 2,125 feet
per second.
Castle Stewart" the great house
built by Senator Stewart, of Nevada.
when he was known as the Silver
King, is now advertised for sale-the
Chinese embassy being about to enter
new quarters.
Messrs. Chew, Swallow, and Hun ger
ing were recently quests at a San
Francisco hotel, While Messrs. Fish
Bacon, Plum, and Cooke were located
at another house. The hotels should
have pooled their guests.
Most of his time Bronson Alcott
spends sitting in an easy chair by the
window. He cannot recognize any
one who passes by on the street, but
salutes them all, so as to be sure of not
neglecting an acquaintance.
The number of French people in the
western hemisphere is 344 900, divided
chiefly rs follows: United States, 1O6,-
972; Mexico, 10, 900; Hayti, 5000; Chill,
1914; Argentine Republic, 5000;
Uruguay, IA, 375; Brazil, SOS.
Senator Jones of Nevada is again
rapidly pushing to the front rank of
millionaires. His mines III Alaska
are proving much richer than hereto
fore represented, and the stock is now
paying dividend of 800 per cent a
year.
E. j. ("Lucky'D Baldwin recently
told San Francisco reporter that he
owns 5000 acres of land. and is will
ing to sell 5000 acres upon the out
laying borders of his ranch for $500
per acre. Strangely enough, the re-
porter did not purchase.
Walton Dwight, who died in 1873 at
Binghamton, n. Y, had insurance
policies on his life amounting to
S25O,OOO. The companies contested
the payment of these policies, alleging
fraud. Claims amounting to $105, 200
have now been settled by the payment
of $18,000
One of the most expert and ac-
complished whist players in Milwaukee
is young lady well known in society
| and art circles She has organized
several large classes for instruction
into the intricacies of the game.
and receives 81 a lesson from each
| of her fair pupils.
New parlor-cars of to-day are sup
piled with bathrooms, barber-shops,
and libraries of novels, periodicals, and
| reading-roOms. If it were not for the
doubt that the safety appliances of
roads are not so carefully prepared as
| It's Injuries, travelling would be more
convenient than staying at home.
A Grass Valley newspaper is re-
sponsible for the statement that rats
| in some Idaho mines became so hungry
during recent shutdown of nearly a
month that they managed to unscrey
the oil cans used about the machine
drills, and satisfied their hunger bv
sticking their tails into the oil and
then sucking them.
An after-dinner speaker in San
Francisco, the other day, relating the
hardships of some of the early Cali
tornians who came by way of the 18TH
mus, said that the piece de resistance
at Panama dinner-table was then a
saddle of monkey" a dish which
hunger might recommend, but which
consanguinity could not but deplore
Presidential names will be well rep
sented in the Fiftieth Congress. There
will be a Washington, an Adams, a
Taylor, and a Hayes. Washington,
who is from Tennessee, will be the
first of the name to sit in Congress-
For many years the letter Y has been
unrepresented in Congress, but it can
now boast the two names Yoder and
Yost.
The fair ladies who are usually present
at the Queens drawing-rooms make
such chatter that her Majesty has